Re: RFC 42 - Request For New Pragma: Shell

2000-09-17 Thread Tom Christiansen
>Several OS's Perl supports prefer case insensitive file systems >(obscure ones, like Windows and MacOS ;). They're broken. We know that. >On top of that, currently "use Shell" and "use shell" both mean to use >SHELL.PM (or shell.pm, Shell.pm, sHeLl.pM) on case insensitive file >systems. T

Re: RFC 42 - Request For New Pragma: Shell

2000-09-13 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Michael G Schwern wrote: ...many good points, all of which I should have known. :-( I will modify the RFC to reflect that /\bshell\b/i is a poor name, due to the current Shell module. Personally, I don't particularly care what it's called - after all, I don't name things ve

Re: RFC 42 - Request For New Pragma: Shell

2000-09-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:48:23AM -0400, Bryan C . Warnock wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > Sooo... what happens to the existing Shell.pm? > > The RFC title notwithstanding, the pragma would be, by convention, > lowercase. (As reflected in the abstract.) The nasty abi

Re: RFC 42 - Request For New Pragma: Shell

2000-09-13 Thread Casey R. Tweten
Today around 6:25am, Michael G Schwern hammered out this masterpiece: : Sooo... what happens to the existing Shell.pm? Indeed. Especially since, as of 5.7.0, it has a beautiful OO Interface so name space pollution is avoided*. ;-) [*] Of course, the origional intention of Shell.pm, seemingly t

Re: RFC 42 - Request For New Pragma: Shell

2000-09-13 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Sooo... what happens to the existing Shell.pm? The RFC title notwithstanding, the pragma would be, by convention, lowercase. (As reflected in the abstract.) Of course, should language features be added to allow scoping to be easily controlled, it

Re: RFC 42 - Request For New Pragma: Shell

2000-09-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
Sooo... what happens to the existing Shell.pm? -- Michael G Schwern http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just Another Stupid Consultant Perl6 Kwalitee Ashuranse MORONS!